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Document in Arabic script, fiscal related. Text is arranged in columns with discrete entries, probably accounts of some sort. Needs examination. On verso there is …
No Scholarship Records
Fragment from a legal document, maybe a deed of sale since it describes the location of a property. Mentions Fāṭima bt. [...].
Palimpsest. The earlier text is extremely faded; it is in Judaeo-Arabic and at least partially deals with recipes or prescriptions. The later text is also …
Small fragment of an 11th or 12th century letter from [...] b. Avraham. May mention al-Barqī.
Long Karaite business letter. The year is given as יה אלש, might be 5431 = 1671.
Fragment (left side) of a Judaeo-Arabic letter. Subject matter is unclear; mentions bad etiquette (sū' al-adab).
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Fragment of an official letter from Fustat addressed to a certain town in the Rīf (or perhaps a circular), exhorting them to be generous and …
16 small fragments. Fol. 1 (1–2) + Fol. 4 (7–8): Letter in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning [...] al-Amshāṭī. Also mentions, "I have asked the bearer..."; and "until …
Instruction by Avraham Maimonides (ha-Nagid, l. 4v) to a scribe to make out a declaration that the court of Fustat had acceded to a ban …
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Letter of appeal for charity from Yeḥezqel b. Ibrāhīm (the writer) and the former judge Moshe b. Shemarya to Abū ʿImran Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy, …
Accounts, probably
Accounts. In Arabic script and Coptic numerals.
Marriage contract (ketubba). Dating: 13th century. Location: Fustat. Groom: Netanʾel. Bride: [...] bt. Yefet ha-Talmid. Marriage payments: 3 + 10 = 13. (Information from Goitein's …
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Fragment of a late legal document in which someone, perhaps Faraj Allāh, acknowledges an investment of Venetian gold from Sulaymān Faraḥ.
Verso: Communal accounts with revenue available and expenditures: 'A [public] Fast--29' 'Food for the poor (mezonot)--39.' Among the expenses, besides bread and salaries, are payments …
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Letter to the mother of Abū Zikrī, Umm Abū Zikrī (אם אבו זכרי), who is also mother of the referenced Abū al-Barakat and wife of …
Legal document in Arabic script. Mentions the date Dhū l-Qaʿda 606 AH = April/May 1210 CE. Also mentions a period of two years and very …
A few words in Arabic script. Reused for a liturgical text in Hebrew.
Draft of the beginning of a court record. Location: Fustat. Dated: Middle decade of Iyyar 1689 Seleucid = May 1378 CE, under the authority of …
Unidentified document in Arabic script.
Capitation tax receipt for Musāfir b. Yūsuf, a Jewish man whose profession is "dīwānī."
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Flax accounting for Barhūn and Yosef. Dating: 11th century. Mentioning many people's names, including Dāwud; al-Labbān; the in-law of Mubārak; ʿAbd al-Salām; Naʿīm; Ibn Asad; …
Small fragment in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Report (or petition?). Line 3: الراي العالي باطلاقه لك على. Line 4: ان شا الله عليه الراي. On verso there are accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, in …
مما يطلق عن الديوان الابواب…بمصر
مائة وخمسة وخمسون دينارا
ومما يطلق من الديوان الاموال (الابواب؟) بالقاهرة
سبعة وسبعون دينارا
ويخرج …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Large fragment. Mentions: receipt of the addressee's letter; news of a terrible thing (akhbār al-ʿaẓīma); something from the recipients student in his …
Letter of the Berekhya brothers to Ibn 'Awkal concerning loss of friendship between them and concerning the inheritance of an emancipated slave.
Letter addressed to Yeshuʿa b. Zekharya the judge (with many grand titles, including החזק הפטיש). Same addressee as T-S 13J21.16. Mentions someone's arrival from Alexandria …
Possibly a letter fragment or blessings for a Jewish notable, in Hebrew. Titles include Sar ha-ʿEda ve-Segulat ha-Yeshiva.
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Dating: Late. Mentions names such as ʿImrān, ʿĪsā, Muḥammad, Yūsuf, Ibrāhīm. The numbers are large (some in the …
Verso: draft of the beginning of a letter with blessings and wishes for good luck and prosperity. Recto: list of the first lines of piyyuṭim. …
Medical recipes. One is to be applied with a cloth to the anus (al-maqʿada) (for hemorrhoids?).
Petition or report. Bottom ~10 lines are preserved. Difficult handwriting. The first line may begin with the words "umūr al-thaghr." Mentions a paper trail and …
Responsa by ROSH.
Recto: Fragment of a document or literary text in Arabic script. Only two partial lines of text are visible and the words contain full ḥarakāt. …
Recto: Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. The hand is familiar from the circle of Avraham Maimonides. The sender will return something after the holiday because he …
Legal document fragment ("I increase on top of her ketubba. . . . 5 dinars. . . 3 gowns. . ."). ASE.
Late letter(s) in Hebrew. Needs examination.
Two letters in Judaeo-Arabic; recto and verso are in different hands. Dating: likely second half of the 11th century. Recto: Lower part of a letter …
Four tiny fragments, on vellum. Fragment No. 1r – two pieces from the same text. Deals with the obligations of the groom toward his bride. …
Late Judaeo-Arabic dowry list, probably, since it is headed "be-siman tov ve-ʿosher ve-banim be-mazal ẓomeaḥ ve-ʿoleh." There follows a list of numerous items, mostly garments, …
Two lines of a state document probably, based on format. Very large. But might also something poetical, referring to love: ḥālī yattaṣilhā l-hawā wa-l-maḥabba wa-ʿindahumā …
Responsum written in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). (Information from CUDL)
Leaf from a literary work discussing magic, medicine, demons.
Legal document in Arabic script. Extremely faded.
P8: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Refers to a woman who owes a debt, a dead man, and …
Leaf from a Karaite book of formularies. Recto: divorce formula, continued for 2 lines on verso, with Arabic jotting in the margin. Verso: marriage formula. …
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Recto: Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. Abū l-Majd is to give to the messenger of the ḥaver …